By Edmundo Saballos, DC NLG “It’s not just about Walmart workers, but about all of us… We’re in the struggle for all workers in the US,” Cynthia Murray, a worker organizer with OUR Walmart told 40 participants at the January 19th panel discussion, “What’s next in the fight to organize Walmart and in the struggle […]
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Kenneth Reams: Opening the Art Event on Capital Punishment from Death Row
By Ann Schneider, NLG-NYC As a young Guild attorney, I got my chance to work with the NAACP LDF in my first job at a union legal service in 1997. A few co-workers and I volunteered our evenings working on a post-conviction review petition in the case of Kenneth Reams. Kenny was a borderline mentally […]
TUPOCC Indicts the System in Chicago
By Iveliz Orellano, NLG Chicago TUPOCC On January 15, TUPOCC Chicago heeded the call from youth of color for solidarity actions that reclaim the radical legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. That day, the radical legal community of color and its allies indicted the system for systematically controlling, devaluing, and breaking up communities of […]
NLG-St. Louis Files Lawsuit to Oust Ferguson Prosecutor
[UPDATE: A judge tossed this lawsuit in July 2015.] By Maggie Ellinger-Locke, NLG St. Louis After the grand jury failed to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson over his killing of Michael Brown, many emotions came to the fore within our community, including anger and sadness. Perhaps most importantly, we felt the continuity of a […]
Massachusetts Legal Community Holds Black Lives Matter Day of Action
By Benjamin Evans, Northeast Regional Co-RVP On February 25, lawyers and law students—many of them Guild members—spoke out in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in a day of action coordinated by the NLG Massachusetts Chapter. The statewide day of action held outside courthouses across Massachusetts was a show of solidarity in response to […]
Letter re: Mall of America Black Lives Matter Protesters
[UPDATE: November 10, 2015] http://www.startribune.com/judge-dismisses-charges-against-black-lives-matter-organizers-of-moa-protest/344894812/ On February 4, 2015, the NLG sent the letter below to Bloomington, MN City Attorney Sandra H Johnson, calling for the “immediate dismissal of all criminal charges and other retributive actions” against the 10 activists arrested on December 20, 2014 at a peaceful #BlackLivesMatter event at the Mall of America. […]
NLG National Office Releases New Radical Law Student Manual
By Traci Yoder, NLG Education and Research Director It has become a truism that many are drawn to law school initially to further social justice, only to end up working in areas of the law that have little potential to serve these ideals. The most common reason cited for this is economic: the average law […]
Standing Room Only for Chicago-Kent’s Panel on Ferguson & Police Militarization
By Kayla Higgins & Militza Pagán On Tuesday, October 21, the Chicago-Kent College of Law NLG chapter hosted a panel on “Ferguson & Police Militarization.” Speakers on the panel included Sheila Bedi, a professor at the Northwestern School of Law with a research focus on mass imprisonment; David Warnock, a Chicago-Kent student who spoke about […]
Occupy round-up
Portland by Jamie Trinkle, Stu Sugarman, and Erica Rothman Occupy Portland kicked off on October 6 with a 10,000- person rally. The occupation then settled into two adjacent parks in front of the County and Federal courthouses. The city was initially supportive, lifting the camping ban and park curfew. Hundreds of Portland occupiers offered free […]